866 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 406

work of the official staff of the Division, including inter-
viewing, consultation of records, analysis of the informa-
tion, diagnosis, plan of treatment, correlation of effort by
individuals and agencies, and methods of influencing human
behavior. He shall, with like approval, prepare and issue
rules and regulations for the guidance of the staff and the
conduct of its work.

The Board of Parole and Probation shall also appoint
such staff of parole officers and other employees as may
be provided for in the Budget.

54. The members of the Board of Parole and Probation
and all of the duly qualified officers and agents of the Divi-
sion of Parole and Probation shall have and are hereby
given visitorial powers over all institutions to which any
person may be committed upon a criminal charge, whether
such institution be a State, County, or City institution;
and the said Director of Parole and Probation shall have
power to summon any witness, including any prisoner
confined in any State, County, or City institution, before
him, and to administer oaths or affirmations to such wit-
ness, wherever, in the judgment of the said Director, it
may be necessary for the effectual discharge of his duties
under this sub-title. Any person failing to appear before
said Director of Parole and Probation at the time and place
specified, in answer to said summons, personally served
upon such witness, or refusing to testify, shall be punish-
able by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars; false swearing on the part of
any witness testifying before said Director of Parole and
Probation on a matter material to inquiry shall be deemed
perjury.

55. It shall be the duty of the Director of Parole and
Probation of his own initiative to cause to be made such
investigation as may enable him to determine the advisa-
bility of granting parole to persons sentenced under the
laws of this State, to any penal institution therein, for a
term or terms totaling one year or more.

Whenever, upon having completed such investigation
the said Director of Parole and Probation shall be of the
opinion that both the interests of the State and of any
prisoner serving a term or terms totaling one year or
more, would be best subserved by the release of said prison-
er on parole, and that there is reasonable probability that,
if such prisoner is released, he will remain at liberty with-
out violating the law, it shall be the duty of the Director
of Parole and Probation to recommend to the Governor,
who is hereby vested with the authority and power to issue